eBay has a new open-source, real-time analytics and stream-processing framework called Pulsar that the company claims is in production and is available for others to download, according to an eBay blog… Read more »
Pinterest shed more light on how the social scrapbook and visual discovery service analyzes data in real time, it said in a blog post on Wednesday, also revealing details about how… Read more »
It’s only been seven months since Twitter released its Answers tool, which was designed to provide users with mobile application analytics. But since that time, Twitter now sees roughly five billion… Read more »
Hadoop software company Cloudera has worked with Google to make Google’s Dataflow programming model run on Apache Spark. Dataflow, which Google announced as a cloud service in June, lets programmers write the same… Read more »
Projects like Apache YARN expand the types of workloads for which Hadoop is a viable and compelling solution, leading practitioners to think more creatively managing data. Read more »
The new system, called TSAR, acts as a real-time data orchestrator and makes it easier for product teams to receive insights into Twitter’s data much faster than before. Read more »
The delivery of real-time query makes Hadoop accessible to more users. Its significance goes well beyond delivering a database management system kind of query engine that other products have had for… Read more »
Google designed BigQuery as a cloud service for running fast queries against massive datasets, but with lofty ambitions there’s always room to take a step back. Now, users that don’t require… Read more »
As is often discussed at GigaOM Pro, beleaguered IT pros are the ones often left to figure out which applications and data should move first and to which type of cloud… Read more »